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From: charles@hpcvcd.HP (Charles Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: isatty() behaviour (was Compress  error messages)
Message-ID: <4300002@hpcvcd.HP>
Date: Fri, 4-Sep-87 13:29:24 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep  4 13:29:24 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 6-Sep-87 06:01:21 EDT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, Oregon
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> > Think of all the code that would stop behaving semi-irrationally if
> > this "fix" were installed.
> The code would of course still be irrational, in that it would be
> perror()ing when it shouldn't.  The most likely symptom would then
> be the "No error" error message, which is even sillier.

An error message should be informative, accurately revealing the true
nature of the problem.  In that line I suggest the above error message
should be changed to read "Programmer is a twit."
	Charles :-) Brown	hplabs!hp-pcd!charles